Daniel J. Studin is a partner in the firm's Individual Client Services Department and a member of the firm’s Family Office Group. Daniel advises individuals and families on personal planning matters, with a focus on domestic and international tax and estate planning.
Daniel also advises individual and corporate fiduciaries in the administration of estates and trusts and donors, private foundations, public charities and other tax-exempt organizations in philanthropic initiatives and related governance matters, including IRS reporting. Daniel has significant experience engaging in planning to reduce estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes for high-net-worth individuals, including executives, real estate owners, fund principals and entrepreneurs, and regularly appears in Surrogate’s Court in contested and uncontested trust and estate proceedings.
Daniel has lectured extensively on tax, estate and trust topics, including advanced estate planning, tax-minimization strategies, charitable planning and estate litigation. He has served as faculty for continuing legal education programs hosted by the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association and other organizations, and has been published by the American Bar Association’s Probate & Property magazine.
In June 2019, Daniel was elected to a three-year term as member of the Estate & Gift Taxation Committee of the New York City Bar Association. In June 2022, Daniel was elected to a three-year term as member of the New York City Bar Association’s Surrogate’s Court Committee.
Prior to joining the firm, Daniel was an associate in the Private Client Services Department of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, resident in its New York offices.